Nzcer online
Capabilitties of successful learners and science thinking. You need capabilitites to be critical, informed and reflective. science thinking with evidence --> The thinking scale is a key element of this program. questions are placed on the scale so that they align with the students level and not age. students a full curriculum level below they can do the yr 4 text instead. Use the scale to measure with progress also. Looking for trends in data. What are the kids improving in? Is it linked to the work the teachers are doing? What are we doing to shift kids? How can we take this into Pd further. Good for comparing the individual report compared to the sort of capabilities etc, by looking at the item report. Why are we doing this? What are our hunches? What is our specific intended outcome. What are our assumptions before we go into the data. Are we looking at this with confirmation bias? Good Links: https://scienceonline.tki.org.nz/